CIO Research Shows Hybrid Cloud Model Dominates, Storage and Backup are Top Cloud Use Cases
March 16 2017 - 8:00AM
NetApp today announced the results of its first industry research
on cloud adoption in Europe. The responses of 750 CIOs and IT
managers in France, Germany and the UK identified hybrid cloud as
the most common adoption – over half of all respondents in each
country indicate they are using a combination of private and public
cloud (69% in Germany; 61% in France; 58% in the UK).
More than half of the survey base also named security as a
primary reason for adopting cloud, showing that trust in cloud
providers continues to advance. Storage and backup ranked as the
top use cases for cloud in all countries surveyed.
Detailed survey findings include:
- Respondents in all three countries prefer the hybrid
cloud. But they rely on different types of partners: Local
service providers are the preferred hybrid cloud partner – as
stated by a combined 26% of base respondents in Germany, France,
and the UK. Other options like hyperscalers (18%) and larger cloud
service providers or global system integrators (17%) are less
popular. Only 3% of all respondents claim they are not using any
cloud services or are only planning to them. These ‘cloud sceptics’
are not linked to a specific company size, industry vertical, or
cloud strategy.
- Security and the cloud go together well: Over
half of the base respondents – 56% – say that security is a primary
motivation for cloud adoption. Germany, France, and the UK
consistently place it in the top three cloud adoption motivations.
This is evidence that trusting cloud providers with data is not
perceived to be a security risk, an indication of further cloud
adoption. All three countries also put flexibility (55%) and cost
savings (54%) high on the list. Ease of use is a primary motivator
in France (61%) and the UK (50%), but not as much in Germany (46%)
where data protection is mentioned more often (53%).
- Storage and backup are top workloads in the
cloud – but there are many more. In the UK, 56% mentioned
file storage, 51% said database, around 40% listed each analytics,
disaster recovery, and SaaS. In Germany, file storage was number
three (60%), database number four (57%), followed by disaster
recovery (50%) and SaaS (45%). In France, database (56%) and file
storage (53%) are number three and four. Other options like remote
working, collaboration tools, analytics, SaaS and disaster recovery
were used by 40% or less of French respondents. Document control as
the least popular cloud workload in all countries.
- Data regulation remains a challenge. While
many respondents are confident they have “some”, “good”, or “full”
understanding of the General Data Protection Regulation which comes
into effect on 25 May 2018, there are a number that admit they
“don’t know what GDPR is”: 10% in the UK, 9% in France, 8% in
Germany.
“IT leaders look to the cloud to boost innovation. We believe
that they should focus on three things to be successful, and these
are choice, control and agility,” said Martin Warren, Cloud
Solutions marketing manager, EMEA, at NetApp. “Enterprises need to
be able to choose which workloads belong in the cloud and choose
the best partners to move them across a hybrid landscape. They need
to have visibility into cost, performance and data placement to
make informed business and regulatory decisions across the full
data lifecycle. And they want to harness every advantage of cloud
economics – from new ideas to concepts to production. We have
strong solutions and strategies to deliver all of this.”
Olaf Fischer, managing director, Claranet Germany, added, “The
survey results show that partnerships are key to bringing cloud
services to the end customer. Our role within this is clearly
defined – enterprises request a wide variety of services delivered
at the highest level with maximum security. At the same time, the
pace of innovation is rapid. With a hybrid cloud based on NetApp
Private Storage, we open the door to next-generation data services
that give customers full insight into data location, public cloud
integration, and strong compliance.”
“Our conversations with customers underline the findings,” said
Gregg Mearing, head of Managed Services at Node4. “Any enterprise
consistently seeks to optimize its cost structures. But flexibility
is just as important. Frankly, our customers don’t want to be
locked in on premises and they don’t want to be locked into a
public cloud. The NetApp Data Fabric is an elegant solution for
this and gives the ability to switch between public clouds as
needed. At the same time, there is 100% integration with our
managed services portfolio, all virtually without CAPEX
investment.”
NetApp delivers a Data Fabric to optimize the value of data in
the cloud, whether customers run an on-premises IT environment
that’s poised for cloud capabilities, or are already using the
hybrid cloud, or are fully committed to a public cloud
infrastructure.
NetApp’s survey of 750 IT decision makers across the UK, France
and Germany was conducted by Opinion Matters in December
2016.
Additional Resources
- Get more Cloud Survey details on SlideShare
- Watch our videos:- “How to get to the hybrid cloud”- “Data
Privacy and Sovereignty: Global Challenges in the Cloud”- “Solving
Data Management Challenges in the Hybrid Cloud”- More NetApp
EMEA videos on YouTube
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- Connect with NetApp on LinkedIn
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Marvin Sauer
NetApp EMEA Communications
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